People's Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday wrote to Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik to stake the claim for forming government in the state.

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Jammu and Kashmir Politics Live: “If Governor would have called us for floor test, we would’ve shown our members. Now situation is different. Election is the only option. If Mehbooba Ji thinks it’s undemocratic, she has a lot of options in this democratic country,” said PDP rebel MLA Imran Ansari on dissolution of J&K Assembly.

Jammu and Kashmir Politics Live: BJP welcomes the decision taken by the J&K Governor. Once again, NC, Congress and PDP hatched a conspiracy in the state that would have done injustice to Jammu and Ladakh. Will they form alliance before elections, asks BJP State president Ravinder Raina on dissolution of Assembly.

Jammu and Kashmir Politics Live: Omar Abdullah wishes good luck to Mehbooba Mufti for the battle ahead, while retweeting a tweet posted by her.

And I never thought I’d be retweeting anything you said while agreeing with you. Politics truly is a strange world. Good luck for the battle ahead. Once again the wisdom of the people will prevail. https://t.co/OcN9uRje1s

Jammu and Kashmir Politics Live: The Trinamool Congress criticised the sudden dissolution of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly on Wednesday night and accused the BJP of having no respect for the constitution. “The BJP have no respect for the constitution and destroying every institution in the country,” TMC national spokesperson and leader of Rajya Sabha parliamentary party Derek O’ Brien told PTI.

Jammu and Kashmir Politics Live: Mufti, adding further, posted, “Since the past five months, regardless of political affiliations, we shared the view that the state assembly be dissolved immediately to avert horse trading & defections. Oddly enough our pleas fell on deaf ears. But who would have thought that the very idea of a grand coalition would give such jitters.”

In my twenty six year old career as a politician, I thought I had seen it all! But like they say never say never! Nevertheless, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to @OmarAbdullah and @Ambikasoni4 ji for helping us achieve the seemingly impossible. 1/4

Jammu and Kashmir Politics Live: A few minutes after Governor Satya Pal Malik dissolved the J&K Assembly, Mehbooba Mufti took to Twitter and, while taking a jibe, posted, “In todays age of technology, it is very strange that the fax machine at HE Governor’s residence didn’t receive our fax but swiftly issued one regarding the assembly dissolution.”

Jammu and Kashmir Politics Live: Governor’s rule was clamped in J&K on June 19 for a six-month period following the collapse of the PDP-BJP coalition government after the saffron party withdrew support.

Jammu and Kashmir Politics Live: The Election Commission will examine whether the model code of conduct can be imposed in Jammu and Kashmir even before fresh elections are announced there, a senior official said on Wednesday after the Governor dissolved J&K Assembly.

The development came a few hours after a party leader Altaf Bukhari had announced that the party has decided to get into an alliance with the Congress and National Conference (NC). ““My leadership has confirmed it to us that the three parties (Congress, PDP and NC) have agreed to make a coalition to defend the special identity of the state politically and legally. Very soon you will get a good news,” he was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.

Notably, the state is currently under Governor’s rule which cannot be extended after it completes its six-month period on December 19. It is proposed to impose President’s rule thereafter. A government headed by the PDP’s Mehbooba Mufti fell when its partner Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) pulled out of the ruling coalition on June 16.

As claimed by sources earlier in the day, if the deal is sealed then Mehbooba Mufti is unlikely to be the chief minister but the government may be headed by a senior PDP leader.

The PDP and Congress have been partners in a government between 2002 and 2007, earlier.